Senior Backend Engineer for Scalable Data Platform (Remote)

Savant Bio, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Savant Bio, Inc. is hiring a Backend Engineer to mature and scale the data platform behind its clinical data products. You’ll design systems moving large datasets through ingestion, processing, quality control, and delivery, with emphasis on reproducibility and observability. Role is remote-eligible with NYC preference.

You’ll work across Python, Rust, SQL systems, Dagster pipelines, and Kubernetes, building scalable solutions for healthcare data at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building production backend or data-intensive software systems.
• Excellent Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Strong architectural judgement and pragmatic decision making.
• Experience designing and operating scalable data pipelines with Dagster, Airflow, or Prefect.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production pipelines for ingesting, transforming, validating, and delivering healthcare datasets.
• Develop backend services and APIs that support Savant’s clinical data products.
• Build reliable Dagster workflows with strong patterns for partitioning, retries, idempotency, backfills, and observability.
• Design data models and contracts that support schema evolution, lineage, reproducibility, and downstream analysis.
• Operate and improve containerized workloads running on Kubernetes.
• Build systems for monitoring pipeline health, data quality, performance, and infrastructure cost.
• Diagnose production issues across application, data, and infrastructure layers.
• Improve the performance of Python and SQL workloads operating over large datasets.
• Establish testing and deployment practices that make data systems safer and easier to change.
• Collaborate with AI engineers to productionize new model workflows and scale them across customer datasets.
• Help shape technical architecture as Savant’s platform, customer base, and processing volume grow.

Skills

Python

SQL

Architectural judgement

Communication skills

Backend experience

Tools

Dagster

Airflow

Prefect

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Savant Bio, Inc. is hiring a Backend Engineer to mature and scale the data platform behind its clinical data products. You’ll design systems moving large datasets through ingestion, processing, quality control, and delivery, with emphasis on reproducibility and observability. Role is remote-eligible with NYC preference.

You’ll work across Python, Rust, SQL systems, Dagster pipelines, and Kubernetes, building scalable solutions for healthcare data at scale.